Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-17
Leaders in the Work PreSsuHDslegates from Al
most Every State and Territ@y-Ths
CrOwning Event Of the Day-Nss
Willard's Eloquent Words

banners ana mowers. MIS-. I1duudH W nltS'
hall Smith, lately returned from England
opened the convention with a Bible
reading on love. At Its close Mis-:
Willard gave the motto for the
days to come. There is nothing in
exorable but love" Before the crOwning
event of the convention Miss Willard s
address, the entire front of the platform
was lined with representatives Of the
press. Among which were Miss Catha,
rine Cole, of the New Orleads Picayuae,
and Mrs. Helen Crane, for the New York
World.
Perfect quietness prevailed, while Miss
Willard gave selections from her annual
address. The address was frequently in
terrupted with applause In loving kind
ness and sympathy in breath of vision and
depth of resolve, her message TO the white
ribbon women cannot be recalled,
MISS WIILARD's WORDS
The following is a synopsis Of the an
nual address of Miss Frances F.. Willard,
President OF the National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Onion
"Forty States and Territories have sent
four hundred representatives to the me-
| tropOlis of Southern education. The
Northern home keepers have crossed Ma
son and DiXOn's line to clasp hands with
their sisters No surer token that We are
one nation has been given since 1864.
"SiXty-four different suggestions OF work
are tabulate1 under the heads of Proven.
ton, Educational, Evangelistic, Social
and Legal work. The fact that no State
Union is bound by the action OF the
National Society was emphasized. There
are not enough anti saloon Republicans ut
the North to carry prohibition in single
State that is now struggling 10 secure it.
nor enough anti-SalOOn Democrats at the
South, As have been proved in this mem0r-
able year of our constitutional defeats, but
there are enough temperance men in both
| to take possession Of the government aud
give us national prohibition in the paI ty
of the near future, which is TO be the party
of God. Women should use their utmost
influence, and wherever they have the
school ballot they should use that TO
ENGRAFT THE KINDERGARTEN
upon IlC pu'llN SNiltplNs w il'l0 'lAlS Niii
not be done let the W. c. r. 4. establish
one; hut above all, lei e9ery mother study
the system and employ it in her own home,
Miss Louise l.. Smith, of Rhode Island
one Of our evangelistic veterans, has pro-
posed that we district the nation, giving
| TO each subdivision n leader of its own.
hope her plan may be carefully considered
but my heart turns with lender love
and blessing toward the church Of
Christ, and prays for the time
when her own hallOwed ministries shall be
so pervasive, that outside societies shall nc
longer prevail. When our legal work shall
broaden into Christian citizenship, our
educational efforts into public kindergar.
tens and industrial schools, where hygiene
shall be the study earliest and longest
taught, when the church shall welcome us
to all her counselS, lay upon our heads her
consecratipg hands aud claim for her own
the voice that speaks Christ We must
work out the manifest destiny Of the
municipal ballot for women as q means of
enforcing prohibitOry law, and emphasize
more strongly than before the natigual
amendment, which shall remove all legal
disabilities from the daughters OF the re-
public.
81 believe also that the Prohibition
party should strongly state as its ultimate
aim two amendments 10 the National Con.
stitutiOn: The first calling Tor universal
prohibitlon; the second, eniranchising the
women, aud that il should carefully study
! the platform OF the labor refOrmer, both
Knight OF Labor and grangers, that it
MAY INCORPORATE THE PRINCIPLES
of arbitration and cooperation into its
own, with any Others that seem to he based
on Christian ethics and Christian brother.
hood. Among these is most assuredly in
vOlved equal wages as well as equal moral
standards for women and men; heavier
penalties for crimes against women, and
the raising of the age Of protection to
eighteen years.
"The Woman's Temperance Publication
Association last year published 10000. 200
pages, and this year over %, ,00O, 900. Our
publishing corps includ.s seventy. five
names, five of which are editorial. The
total issues OF the Union SigaGl for the year
were / 1884, 900 copies, or an average of 80, =
423 copies per week. Our four periodicals
have combined circulation of 80, 900
copies, and we have printed over SO, 900,
600 pages Of temperance literature during
the year. Woman's Lecture Bureau is
now being established, in charge of the
national president aud corresponding sec
retary, at 66l La Belle street. Chicago,
with good prospects of great usefulness.
would once more urge upon my comrades
hi
izing our press department headquarters,
so that our Associated Press kilograms
bulletins, paragraphs, etc, shall cover the
whole country and be regularly issued.
THE largest of our enterprises, the
worlds W. c. T. U. continues to hold on
its way rejoicing. Mrs. Leavitt does not
think of coming home as yet. She will
thoroughly explore India, plsnting our
stations at all eligible points. She will 90
thence to Madagascar, Africa, Asia Minor,
and know not where besides We must
DEVISE LIBERAL THINGS
for this work. We must at this convention
arrange a definite financial basis, as our
British sisters have done, so that our Ma
tional W. c. T. L. may be related to the
worlds W. c. T. L. as our state auxil-
iaries to us by the golden link which alone
can attach us to the putting engine that
has started on its regular world aronnd
trips. The W. @. T. y. of Ohio has 81.
ready arranged for a new department in
the interest of peace. This is strictly ger
main to temperance work, for nothing in
creases intemperance like war, and moth
ing tends toward war like intemperance.
I'VE ought to rejoice in the development
OF athlehcspOrts, ior EGmsn - well IS
men, since whatever eonduces IN the
natural tonic and stimulus of oIEaEei
life, leads away from all narcotic drugs.
The future Of the national temperance hos
pital, located in Chicago, is assured. As
[ Temperance people we must no longer leave
our interests andefepded in Washington,
| suggest that this convention invite TIC
Sons Of Temperance, Good Templars and
Prohibition party to combine with us in
the effort to engage a Gssi.:..,s G-....sn temper
ance lawyer at Washington, who shall
watch our interests as earefnliy as Louis
Shade & Co. do those of the brewers and
iistilles. The Natie2and ieesss' Associa
lion made, to my hnd mixed facre con.
zRsete response H5a3 10. keeuelf.I
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